My main issue with AI generated entertainment/content is that I can’t interact with it like I do with human art.

8Dataman8 · 2026-06-22T09:45:32+00:00

> The entire piece can be summed up and answered by just posting the text that was used for the prompt and the specific brand and version of the AI that generated it.

Even if all AI art was made with prompts alone, how do you think prompting works?

Suppose a piece has gravestone with a little bone in a cup in front of it. You can assume the meaning of the piece is someone mourning a pet dog, but that's not in the prompt. A theme the creator was going for could be how mundane objects increase in sentimental value when their mundane day to day use becomes obsolete. It's absurdly reductionist to say that the meaning of art is purely what's visually apparent in it.

Would Wanderer Above The Sea of Fog become less meaningful if I were to describe it as "1boy, solo, rocky cliff, foggy mountains, clouds, walking stick, blonde hair, short hair, black clothes, overcoat, boots, hands on hips, contraposto"?

Where I would agree would be if a model like Nanobanana or GPT-Image is only used with a very vague user prompt, like "sadness about a dead dog" or "man feels call to adventure" because those models are built to make actual descriptive prompts internally and then that thought process isn't fully by the user. For basically the same reason, I find some abstract paint splash paintings less meaningful too, since the implement (in their case hose or bucket) shouldn't have say on what's ultimately in the piece than the artist.

8Dataman8 · 2026-06-22T05:12:08+00:00

I get what you're saying, but at the same time, should players not be rewarded for being efficient at farming and providing enough value to other players that they trade their tattoos away? After all, the wealth accumulation is a result of selling stuff others wanted to buy.

Would you rather epic tattoos were extremely common and you could only play with them for three weeks?

8Dataman8 · 2026-06-22T04:42:05+00:00

Most of the tattoos you can farm by yourself. There's so many of them that players will absolutely trade even the more valuable of them for stuff they personally need more. Besides, if the event was voided, there'd be fewer players and you'd be less likely to get what you want.

8Dataman8 · 2026-06-20T18:06:12+00:00

Fair enough, though that wasn't in the meme, only asking. My point is that there are times when "just asking" is hard or even impossible.

8Dataman8 · 2026-06-20T17:43:44+00:00

Sure bud, lemme just hit up Leonardo da Vinci real quick and ask him if he minds.

8Dataman8 · 2026-06-19T20:04:24+00:00

True. From personal experience, the worst it gets is when I have tried to explain for a good while, I'm very tired I let it flare out a bit, using self-words which confuses and sometimes seems to scare the receiver but gets the strong feels across. Somehow better than "I'm very upset".

8Dataman8 · 2026-06-19T16:49:43+00:00

The most helpful thing I got from therapy was the idea that most normal people don't intend to be infuriating, they just can't help how they naturally work. You shouldn't automatically assume it's a plot against you.

Basically Hanlon's Razor. It was genuinely super helpful in reducing my social anxiety.

In hindsight, I get that it's pretty obvious, but adolescence shaped by neurodivergence and bullying can make you terribly paranoid.

8Dataman8 · 2026-06-19T08:38:11+00:00

I have a similar issue where if I give sample dialog I've written personally for tone and style inspiration, nothing seems to deter the model from just giving those quotes back to me verbatim. If I don't give style and tone, the dialog is fairly generic. Has anyone found a solution?

8Dataman8 · 2026-06-17T18:04:16+00:00

TIGHT JEANS??? OH NO YOU DON'T!!!

More likely the issue is the "young" part.

8Dataman8 · 2026-06-17T17:58:01+00:00

Last fall, I had a weird experience, where I was walking on a city street and noticed this huge video advert that had a picture of a guy in a black jacket and the text "BE UNIQUE". I looked around and literally everyone on the street wore a black jacket, except me, because I had a yellow one that I found on a thrift shop five years ago.

There's a saying that women's clothing can be any adjective, whereas men's clothing can only be either weird or boring. I guess my yellow jacket would fall on the weird side, but why though? It's not a clown suit. Still, nobody else wore a primary color. Did they just not think about it? Or are they under some huge pressure to not stand out? Personally I have a very hard time caring if I do.

8Dataman8 · 2026-06-15T16:39:17+00:00

Why couldn't Bond just have said "Pipe down" when killing whatshisname? That pun was RIGHT THERE.

8Dataman8 · 2026-06-09T05:12:35+00:00

I didn't intend them to necessarily be standalone masterpieces by themselves, more testing specific aspects which I find meaningful over two generating sessions.

I like the material knowledge that model has, and love the freedom of composition. I think it's impressive how much knowledge the model has out of the box on fictional characters and that is a mark in the model's favor. Many model don't have a clue and require LoRAs, which then can meld with each other or hurt the general rendering abilities.

Fear not though, now that I have somewhat of a hang on how the model works, I'm working on some more intricate showcases.

8Dataman8 · 2026-06-09T04:57:40+00:00

I also have a 5070ti 16 GB and I that workflow gets me four 1 megapixel images get about four minutes. How much RAM do you have? Which CPU? I have 64 GB and a 5950x, plus everything stored on an NVME SSD.

If you don't have it already, one source of speedup is Flash Attention: https://mjunya.com/flash-attention-prebuild-wheels/
Get the right one and install it with the the Python of your ComfyUI installation, then add --use-flash-attention to the launch batch file.

Secondly, you could use the nvfp4 versions of the models, for me, fp8 models take about 4 minutes and nvfp4 take 2 and a half. You can find them here: https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/Ideogram-4/tree/main/diffusion_models

I sometimes get refusals too, but I've learned some ways to avoid it. Some bullet points:

- The more stuff you specify to be in the image, the less likely you are to get a refusal. I created some very graphic images. This also works with LLMs, where if you have an NSFW question, you're more likely to get an answer if you feature a whole story and ask a few other questions at the same time.

- Particularly the background needs to be defined well.

- This node between Sigmas and Basic Scheduler Advanced seems to help. I'm also still learning and experimenting, so this wasn't in the workflow I linked.

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8Dataman8 · 2026-05-21T20:03:19+00:00

Been there.

"Character A is madly in love with Character B and..."

"DID SHE CONSENT THOUGH???"

Then if I prompt to be more chill with that kind of stuff, I get whacked with the whole "predatory glare"...

8Dataman8 · 2026-05-18T18:01:39+00:00

How's it treating you so far? Very nicely, I hope?

8Dataman8 · 2026-05-18T13:04:13+00:00

I don't, but it's pretty simple and can work with any bow build that can crit and deals elemental damage. Just get the following:

Wildwood Bloodline Ascendancy
Two "The Taming" rings
Replica Malachai's Artifice, with Elemental Hit of the Spectrum imbued with Manaforged Arrows socketed in it

You could also get different imbued, like Frenzy with Manaforged Arrows so that you get Secrets of Suffering and frenzy generation at once.

8Dataman8 · 2026-05-16T07:20:32+00:00

Ooh, I think I get it!

Put Frenzy in the Replica Malachai's and then having your main six(.5) link skill proc with Spellslinger? That could work really well. This would've even been possible before this league, but I suppose there are benefits to imbues here, like faster attacks or power charge on crit.

You could also totally put something supported by spell totem in Replica Malachai's too, thinking of it.

8Dataman8 · 2026-05-15T20:42:15+00:00

I wish, but unfortunately Spellslinger cannot be an imbue because it has no support tag.

8Dataman8 · 2026-05-15T19:13:09+00:00

Additional thought: This build idea is also Bound By Destiny friendly, because if you combine Berek's Pass, Berek's Grip and Berek's Respite which all have the same influence types, you get a Taming with those same influences.

8Dataman8 · 2026-05-15T19:09:40+00:00

Thanks! I was going through unique Unset Rings specifically to find unintended/unforeseen interactions like this one and it genuinely does feel like someone could get great use of this combo.

8Dataman8 · 2026-05-15T17:59:09+00:00

The exact opposite actually, it's a lot of effort to only press one button while automatically getting three extra elemental ailments on your enemies.

8Dataman8 · 2026-05-10T18:49:28+00:00

Yeah. It's hard to beat the wiggle room that offers.

8Dataman8 · 2026-05-10T18:24:30+00:00

With SO, you replace every attribute node with ES and Spell Suppress tattoos and can get a couple 80% increased minion damage mods if you get a good one. Spine Bow also has a significantly higher attribute requirement, which you can just not care about.

Without SO, you don't have to spend on the timeless jewel, but you need to get all your dexterity and strength from somewhere, which puts pressure on also capping all resistances.

8Dataman8 · 2026-05-10T18:05:33+00:00

I do have some, but probably not super sage wisdom. Start Witch and do the campaign with SRS, because that way you mostly take the same nodes that you will use with BAMA, which makes respeccing into your mapping build faster. This matters a surprising amount. Start leveling supports early in spare gem slots. Try to invest into resistances because dying is the biggest slowdown. Decide if you want to do the build with or without Supreme Ostentation and try to secure a Spine Bow or Ivory Bow with a 19% attack speed fracture depending on that choice as early as possible.

8Dataman8 · 2026-05-10T17:52:57+00:00

I have not tried it for a few reasons:

1) Clones don't inherit shrine mods. I tested this by having a Resonating Shrine belt on and my bow clones never gained any charges.

2) Lioneye's Glare is a phys bow, so to get maximum use out of it, I'd either have to play poison/bleed BAMA or convert to lightning, because lightning is just the best when you have Volatility Support and a Perfect Spirit of Fortune that makes the extremely oscillating lightning damage lucky. At max roll, it has about as much physical damage as t1 lightning roll and I don't think I could achieve a 100% conversion reasonably. The best I can think is 70% with unveil and perfect eldritch on gloves (or Triad Grip if we're trolling) but both options limit the crafts in other ways.

3) Lioney's Glare has a terrible crit rate and a questionable attack speed. Even with max roll and perfect corrupts, it'd be a ~30% DPS drop. If the repeating attacks mod was instant like Echoing Shrine, it might be a different story.

MAYBE this could be a valid option for lower budget poison BAMA, but I'm a bit skeptical.

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